Title:The length of patents and the timing of innovation
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Author(s):ROUSAKIS, MichaelDate:2014Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP; 2014/24Abstract:This article evaluates the effects of patent rights on the timing of innovation. As in Shleifer (1986), firms in different sectors receive cost-saving ideas exogenously and sequentially, from which they can make temporary ...

Title:Lexicographic Voting
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Author(s):KLINGELHÖFER, JanDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP; 2011/17Abstract:This paper reconsiders the division of the literature on electoral competition into models with forwardlooking
voters and those with backward-looking voters by combining ideas from both strands of the
literature. As long ...

Title:Memory Politics in Western Europe
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Author(s):ART, DavidDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP; 2010/01Abstract:This paper examines how ten West European states have dealt with the legacy of the Second World

Title:A model of rights
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Author(s):THOMAS, JeanDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP; 2013/33Abstract:This paper articulates a model of rights. It starts from three simple intuitions about what rights are. First, rights protect an interest, that is, something that we value. For example, the right to life protects life, ...